Originally Posted by Cab_Burge
You have to feed it after the oil has gone through the pump and filter, correct work
I'm sure it can't hurt to take it apart now and then and look at what has collected inside of it and clean it up, I wouldn't do it after every oil change unless it had a part fail like spinning a rod bearing or some other metal making failure that would contaminate the oil work shruggy
It's your choice shruggy

Which won’t make much difference in a race engine for the 8-11 second run, if something breaks an oil filter is useless, the engine is toast.